Our Hushpuppi Republic

AN IMPERVIOUS POPULACE: We have become dead unto ourselves,
impervious to deep think and common sense. This long-sustained
position has now been concretised by the HUSHPUPPI saga number
two.
First, Hushpuppi saga one, was when Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abass was
cornered in Dubai by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and
hauled to the US where he was found guilty for various acts of cyber
scamming.
The beefy-faced felon had no defence. He is a certified outcast who
leeches on the society to grow fat. He made no bones about it. He’s a
big ticket scammer. He is good at his vile vocation and he made big hits.
But Hushpuppi in all his overarching brainpower is smart by half. Why?
He lived like a bloody fool. How could a fellow (read felon) who happens
to be draped in a dark skin live like the sheikh of Arabia right under the
nose of the Emirate throne?
Ramon Azeez, the Nigerian evil whiz picked big greenbacks and he was
spending even bigger. Perhaps he thought he was erstwhile Arab
celebrity, Adnan Khashogi of sort? 
He set the internet on fire with his gilded lifestyle – gaudy gold,
boisterous designer dresses and a princely parking lot.
He practically invited trouble and trouble came to him bearing manacles.
The civilised world wouldn’t condoned the loud, leeching antisocial. For
good reasons too: such louts if allowed free rein, damage societies very
easily. They are therefore spotted quickly and removed from circulation
like canker.
So was Ramon Abass removed from Dubai quickly so that he doesn’t
stain their gilded environment. 
HUSHPUPPI SAGA11: ENTER DCP ABBA KYARI: Hushpuppi actually
got carried away. The Nigerian factor was his making and unmaking. In
Nigeria you could get away with anything. And he did. All the way from
Naija, he horned his illicit craft and migrated abroad where he ‘blew’, to
use their infernal street lingo. He became so big that all the way from
Dubai, Hushpuppi could pull strings and make things happen real time in
Naija.

Enters Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. Kyari was literally
number one policeman in the land never mind there’s also such a title as
Inspector General of Police (IGP).
Kyari was head of a special squad from the IGP’s office called IGP
Intelligence Response Team (IIRT). It was supposed to be a, rapid,
loose-running, semi-secretive, Intel-driven unit. But Kyari is imbued with
deep Husspuppi syndrome so he built IIRT in his image. 
Kyari adopted a high-octane supercop/celebrity cop persona. In the
manner of celebrities, he courted media publicists and every official duty
he converted to personal exploits. 

The media got suckered as Nigerians got sucked. Soon, SUPERCOP
emerged amongst us.
Abba Kyari basked in the aura of his new-found fame. He was called
upon at every trouble spot across the country; he was the only cop who
had sense, intel and courage, it suddenly seemed. ABBA Kyari thus
became the buzzword for policing in Nigeria. And as Kyari grew in
stature, the force diminished.
Of course, Kyari got carried away, his Hushpuppi nature surged to the
fore and apparently, beclouded his reasoning. 
He could be found cavorting with the ‘baddest’ and most moneyed guys
in town. Kyari was videotaped dancing like a yoyo at a gig by a certain
MC Oluomo; most recently, he was a special guest during the ultra-
extravagant burial ceremony of Obi Cubana’s mother.
And now this: running dubious errands for Hushpuppi who orders
Nigeria’s top police honcho around from his Dubai base.
US courts in tandem with the FBI are providing evidence to convince us
that DCP Kyari par-took in Hushpuppi’s criminal cyber-haul. Kyari has
denied the allegations, claiming he was only doing his job. The jury is
still out but the US court wants Kyari brought over to the States to
answer.
WELCOME TO HUSHPUPPI COUNTRY: in all of this, what is shocking
to this writer is that Nigerians seem shocked by the current revelations
about their much loved superhero. But it actually required minimum
discernment to see through DCP Kyari. Apart from his anti-policing and
anti-intelligence ways, he is rumoured to be extremely rich. He has a
penchant to cozy up to the nouveau riche, having no scruples about how
they make their wealth. One of the major cases he supposedly cracked
concerning a certain Evans, alleged to be a kidnap kingpin, has
remained in limbo two years after. Something is AMISS there if you ask
me!
What it means is that Nigeria’s Hushpuppi environment suited Kyari well
and here are the reasons:

If Hushpuppi lived in Nigeria, he may never have been apprehended, not
to mention prosecuted. He seems to be operating under the tight cover
of the law.
In a Hushpuppi Republic, everyone seeks to be super rich or attached to
the super rich. Nobody gives a farthing how the super rich made money;
almost everyone simply falls prostrate in worship of mammon. 
Here are some examples why Nigeria today is a Hushpuppi Republic:
One, the police that ought to be one efficient, organic institution caves
into the whims of one officer.
Two, we have seen journalists worshipping at the altar of treasury
looters who have subverted the nation’s economy. And newspapers and
broadcast channels, the veritable watchdogs have been caught
whitewashing and hawking dubious awards to undeserving politicians
and questionable characters. The last one read about the National
Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) they were also hawking
awards to the highest bidder/rogues in our midst. All these students want
is to live large even as students.
Lastly, be reminded that the Hushpuppi syndrome is not merely the
coveting of huge unearned wealth, no. 
It is about adopting an unsustainably licentious and lascivious lifestyle in
a sea of human misery. 
Close your eye for a moment and ponder upon it: Don’t you think that
most of our elite and top politicians live like Hushpuppi? Are you not
reminded of a Hushpuppi Republic?